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Although he is a great admirer of le Carré, he has never tried to turn espionage into the setting for a complex human drama.
Lord knows how he got the manuscript of "Red Sparrow" past the redacting committee at Langley, but he has turned his considerable knowledge of espionage into a startling debut.
Speaking after Krutov's death, Vladislav Tretiak, the great goaltender who is now president of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia, said Krutov was "such a dependable and steadfast man that I would have gone anywhere with him — to war, to espionage, into peril".
In tone and atmosphere, it is a little like the first season of "The Hour," though that BBC series was a more richly imagined thriller that wove espionage into a deeper look at British society — and the advent of television news — in its postwar letdown.
Wilson jumps into marriage with a socially prominent young woman (Angelina Jolie), only to leave her for six years of service in London and postwar Berlin, where he works with a British agent (Billy Crudup) modelled on Kim Philby a man of immense charm who turns espionage into an amusing dance of treachery.
Thrillers and spy tales have devolved in movies to a hash of slice'n'dice editing, prefabricated plots and outlandish action and gunplay that makes all espionage into James Bond or, worse, a video game.
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His account of American forays into espionage in the late 40's and early 50's might be humorous, were the stakes not so serious.
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